[GTALUG] of routers and access points

[David Mason]

This (letting the router do all the work) is a possibility, but the router is very far from all the other connections, so at the moment I have a long RJ45 cable to the router. So I’d have to run another long cable back to the switch where everything else is plugged in.

Part of my question was whether anyone else is using POE access points, and whether it’s worth doing as right now I have an extension cord running to the router. If so I’d need a router that supported POE, so I mentioned the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter as such a (non-WiFi) router.

To clarify the topology, the modem is just a modem (cable), so some router is needed. Also, I don’t think the DLink WiFi router does DNS other than relay (because I want to have names for my local servers). It also flakes out for a few seconds, so replacing it now seems like a reasonable thing.

Lennart mentions the WRT1900ACv2, but I’d like to get the system so that it’s less brittle (i.e. if I’m not home for a week or 2 and bad things happen, i’d like others to be able to get things back to functioning) so I’m not sure about custom firmware.

../Dave
On Apr 24, 2019, 3:11 PM -0400, Don Tai <dontai.canada at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Why don't you let the router do all the router work, such as Wifi, routing, DHCP, DNS, etc? I have my router RJ45'd to my Bell router, and let it do all that. The Bell router's wifi is rarely used, but is a backup. Connect all your boxes RJ45 to your router if you wish, then they can all play well together, no? Is this too simple a setup?
>
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 11:58, David Mason via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> > > I had a setup where my modem was connected to my gateway Linux box which did routing, DHCP, DNS, etc. and was also connected to a switch which was connected to a WiFi router being used as an access point. This is too brittle for my tastes, as other members of my family can’t resolve problems with it.
> > >
> > > Something went wrong so I have temporarily reconfigured it so the WiFi router is connected directly to the modem, but this doesn’t let the WiFi clients connect to the Linux boxes or other hard-wired machines or let them connect to the internet. (I could connect the other devices to the router, but for WiFi propagation reasons, the WiFi router is far away from all the other devices, so this is not ideal.)
> > >
> > > So I was thinking of getting a https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_363&item_id=102961 router and connecting to that the Linux box (which would still do DHCP (possibly) and DNS, the router configured back as an access point (or a POE access point such as https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1056_356&item_id=031082, as well as the other wired devices.
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Thanks.
> > >
> > > ../Dave
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